Claim LD05-HQ-C02 (v1.0)
Human override has no fixed fairness direction: it can reduce or amplify disparity depending on the human baseline, institutional setting and the margin being overridden.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- Interpretation
- Publication status
- Eligible for publication
- Verification state
- Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
- Does not license
- “Humans are fairer” or “algorithms are fairer”
- Limitations
- Two US contexts; exact Kentucky magnitude remains HOLD
What this line marks HOLD was not cleared for public use, so this site does not give it. Check the original source.
- Source (as cited)
- Cheng/Stapleton et al. CHI 2022 + corrected analysis; Albright 2019
- Source type
- Peer-reviewed conference paper, Preprint, Working paper (recorded as “Peer-reviewed article + correction preprint + working paper”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic
- Maturity of the evidence
- Rapidly maturing evidence
- Recorded date
- 25 September 2026
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. Correction or concern on its sources: Cheng et al., “How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions,” CHI 2022: corrected by Stapleton et al., “Extended Analysis of ‘How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions’,” arXiv:2204.13872.
Sources this version cites
- Cheng et al., “How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions,” CHI 2022 (Peer-reviewed conference paper)
Read the original Correction or concern: Cheng et al., “How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions,” CHI 2022: corrected by Stapleton et al., “Extended Analysis of ‘How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions’,” arXiv:2204.13872. - Stapleton et al., “Extended Analysis of ‘How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions’,” arXiv:2204.13872 (Preprint)
Read the original Correction or concern: Stapleton et al., “Extended Analysis of ‘How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions’,” arXiv:2204.13872: corrects Cheng et al., “How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions,” CHI 2022. - Albright, “If You Give a Judge a Risk Score: Evidence from Kentucky Bail Decisions,” Harvard John M. Olin Fellows’ Discussion Paper 85 (2019) (Working paper)
No checked link to the original yet.
Version
This is the current version, v1.0. Earlier versions stay available, and their records never change.
Raw record: every recorded field, with its coded values
All 25 canonical Claim fields, verbatim, with the coded values derived from them. The plain-language labels above are read from these.
- Claim type (coded)
- INTERPRETATION (as printed: “INTERPRETATION”)
- Publication status (coded)
- ELIGIBLE (as printed: “ELIGIBLE”)
- Verification state (coded)
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY
- Source type (coded)
- PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER, PREPRINT, WORKING_PAPER
- Maturity (coded)
- RAPIDLY_MATURING
- Source correction / concern relations (coded)
- SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022 CORRECTED_BY SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD05-HQ-C02 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | Human override has no fixed fairness direction: it can reduce or amplify disparity depending on the human baseline, institutional setting and the margin being overridden. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | INTERPRETATION | base_types: INTERPRETATION |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | F — Distribution and inequality | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | RAPIDLY MATURING | states: RAPIDLY_MATURING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Cheng/Stapleton et al. CHI 2022 + corrected analysis; Albright 2019 | source_ids: SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022, SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022, SRC-LD05-ALBRIGHT-RISK-SCORE-2019 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed article + correction preprint + working paper | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER, PREPRINT, WORKING_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | US child welfare and pretrial bail | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Observational / counterfactual / quasi-experimental analysis | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | Allegheny referral data; Kentucky court data | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | AFST; Kentucky pretrial risk/default system | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Algorithm-only/default vs human departure | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Allegheny workers reduced racial disparity; Kentucky departure was harsher for Black defendants | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Direction of human override effects | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | “Humans are fairer” or “algorithms are fairer” | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Two US contexts; exact Kentucky magnitude remains HOLD | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Allegheny and Kentucky qualify one another | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US/English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Race-specific disparity effects | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | D5, D4a, L-A | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Broad evidence of a stable override effect across contexts | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE | state: ELIGIBLE |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-09-25 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D5 (DOMAIN); D4a (SUB_AREA); L-A (LENS)
The sources as recorded, with their record IDs and coded source types:
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Cheng/Stapleton et al. CHI 2022” → Cheng et al. (2022), “How Child Welfare Workers Reduce…” (SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022--v1.0) — Cheng et al., “How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions,” CHI 2022; class PEER_REVIEWED_CONFERENCE_PAPER — status: CORRECTED_BY SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022 (explicit public provenance pin)
- “corrected analysis” → Stapleton et al., “Extended Analysis of ‘How Child…” (SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022--v1.0) — Stapleton et al., “Extended Analysis of ‘How Child Welfare Workers Reduce Racial Disparities in Algorithmic Decisions’,” arXiv:2204.13872; class PREPRINT — status: CORRECTS SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022 (explicit public provenance pin)
- “Albright 2019” → Albright (2019), “If You Give a Judge a Risk Score…” (SRC-LD05-ALBRIGHT-RISK-SCORE-2019--v1.0) — Albright, “If You Give a Judge a Risk Score: Evidence from Kentucky Bail Decisions,” Harvard John M. Olin Fellows’ Discussion Paper 85 (2019); class WORKING_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)
Cited by Living Debate versions
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SocioLens project. (2026, September 25). Human override has no fixed fairness direction: it can reduce or amplify disparity depending on the human baseline, institutional setting and the margin being overridden [Claim LD05-HQ-C02, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld05-hq-c02/v1.0/
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Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 5949aa155b02ca6e8582335d4781fbae1dc18c152bdbadced541d6cd05d7eded.
Frozen Drive-derived inputs
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Builder decisions (not Drive data)
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- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-CHENG-ET-AL-CHI-2022--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 02 — LD05-HQ-C02 cites "Cheng/Stapleton et al. CHI 2022"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C02/C04 fields 6–8; Batch 01 §3 "Primary source:" (DOI 10.1145/3491102.3501831); KEY EVIDENCE ("Peer-reviewed conference paper").
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-STAPLETON-ET-AL-2022--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 02 — LD05-HQ-C02 cites "corrected analysis"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C02 "corrected analysis"/C04 fields 6–8; Batch 01 "Related extended correction"; KEY EVIDENCE ("Correction/preprint").
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-ALBRIGHT-RISK-SCORE-2019--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 02 — LD05-HQ-C02 cites "Albright 2019"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C02/C05 fields 6–8; Batch 01 §7; KEY EVIDENCE ("Working paper").
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